Word: catenacciu
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...whose identity was known only to the local curate, Father Jean Baptiste Scuitti. From wherever he had come, the man was there voluntarily to atone for his sins by enacting the role of Christ making his way to Calvary. To Corsicans, as always, he was known only as Le Catenacciu (The Enchained...
...awful lot of exercise. The procession, chuckles Father Scuitti, "is no evening promenade." In last week's mock trip to Calvary, a short, fat man grunted and puffed as he bore the cross along a mile-and-a-half route. Coming out of the church, the Catenacciu got his huge load stuck in the doorway. Then, as he stumbled along dirt paths and darkened, cobbled streets, struggled painfully up flights of ancient granite stairs, his bare feet began to bleed. Throngs of villagers and 15,000 tourists in Sartene for the occasion gathered along the route to jeer. Three...
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